Continuing my alternate history exploration, I've settled on the hardware I would've gotten for Christmas 1989 (A500, basic monitor, some kind of HDD, Workbench 1.3), but now I'm trying to find fairly equivalent software to what I used on the classic mac to round out the experience.
Any recommendations for Amiga equivalents truly appreciated:
Introductory programming and presentation - Hypercard 1.x
Word Processing - Microsoft Word 4 Casual paint - MacPaint 1.x
Shareware games (no money for commercial ones) - StuntCopter, Dark Castle, Glider
Random amusements/toys - Talking Moose, Stupid Mac Tricks (Bob LeVitus)
@RL_Dane I had that setup in late 87, replacing the C128. Eventually adding a second aftermarket floppy drive.
As for software I was using Aztec C, and of course Deluxe Paint. For Shareware you couldn't beat the Fred Fish disks, and also the Tampa Bay Amiga Group had their Tbag disks. Those are still available on archive.org.
Look what came in the mail today! The #Amiga CD32 version of "Rogue Declan" from @nivrig Games! I sense an unboxing and updated review happening this weekend!
To my #commodore#amiga bubble: How can I pin the icons of a folder after doing "Clean up". The "fixate" entry doesn't help. After every restart the icons are all jumbled...
I gave up managing tabs on mobile, I just have firefox export all the tab URLS to plain text, save them to a file, and clear them all every few months. ;)
Well, I say I gave up. I'm doing a decent job this time around.
@RL_Dane I have abit of OCD and things must be neat, clean and in order so if I see tabs open I'm not using I'll check it out bookmark it for later if need be then close it 😆
Added "supporting" objects with individual gravity, which will be the basis for moving platforms and maybe also lifts. Free bonus iso-sort glitching too.
Today I added the search to the text files too and I started revising the code to optimize it... while I was fixing things I thought to make the program multilingual, so I started transferring all the hardcoded strings into a array which will be overwritten in case of languages other than the native one.
I initially thought of using tags to search for strings dynamically, but I'm afraid of slowing down the entire program which instead needs to be as fast as possible.
Finally got around to finishing the upgrades for my #Amiga 3000. It now has a BFG9060 and a ZZ9000 in it.
All ready for the public to play on it later this month.
If you jump on top of a block, it drags around with you after that because the gravity movement applied to the player means you’re always colliding with it.
I think I’ll have to resolve the Z movement first and/or possibly in a separate pass to make it behave.
Or maybe a hack where I ignore x, y movement if there is a z collision will do (and be a lot faster).
Anybody else who still gets super excited by new, modern, releases for retro systems? Take this, just delivered, fine example - Rogue Declan for the #Commodore#Amiga by Nivrig Games and published by poly.play
What was your first OS? Mine was amiga workbench 1.3 Didn’t have a hard disk though, so needed to swap diskettes every time I needed to boot into it. Otherwise I would just see the kickstart in rom boot screen 😁 Ah the days.. #amiga#retrocomputing
ROGUE DECLAN, winner of the AmiGamJam, 90%+ scoring in ZZap and Amiga Addict, is now available in fantastic boxed editions from @polyplay including CD32 with an all-new CDDA soundtrack.
This issue we celebrate the best #Amiga games and developers from our neighbours in mainland Europe! We're looking at The French Connection with interviews with some luminaries en France like Éric Chahi of Another World fame and François Lionet, creator of AMOS. https://shop.amiga-addict.com#AmigaAddict
@retrowelle
The first game I played on my A500 was Tunnel Vision with its incredible speech 😄 (I'm sure it only ran via the Workbench). I've played it a lot because it took some time to get me some games.
Edit: Btw, Arkanoid was great! 😍
